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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I just got frightened that I may lose this seat. However, that issue is very important. If left unresolved because we think it cannot be done, it can actually give a chance to people with mischief to call for the dissolution of Parliament. When I was in the Ministry of Gender, this issue was canvassed and a whole Cabinet committee was put in place to look at it. You have only one possibility out of it. Even with that, you may still have to amend the Constitution. The only way you could do it is to wait up to soon after the elections when we know the number of Members who have been elected in terms of how many will be male and how many will be female. You will then have to nominate numbers, so that you have not more than two-thirds of either gender. When that is done, we will end up with numbers of over 500 Members of Parliament just arising from that. Even with that, you would still have a problem with Articles 97 and 98 of the Constitution, because in each case there are given actual numbers that have to be nominated. The only way out would be to have recourse to Article 177(b), which says:"
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